This had previously been posted to !politics@lemmy.world (https://lemmy.world/post/23131889) but was removed as "not politics." Personally, I think pointing out instances of manufactured consent very much is politics, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2024
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Because .world admins, and by extension their mods who have to enforce their policies, are corpo bootlickers
It does seem clear from the messages they write which, coincidentally sound entirely like Reddit marketing tripe, that they are gunning for a corporate buyout and golden parachutes, for a Lemmy instance, which is laughable.
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Kinda off topic, but I wish more of these posts were not on the .world instance. They seem to be giving into the censors and becoming more reddit-like over time.
Very on topic imo
Get off .world yall
As someone that started on Lemmy post Reddit, I found .world to be the most up front and easy to sign up for. I would love to change off of world but I'm not sure the best alternatives or ways to find them? Do you have any recommendations?
join-lemmy.org has a list of instances you can join. If you just want to look through a list that's a great place to browse.
If you're looking for specific recommendations I'd say lemm.ee is great in terms of moderation, they don't overmoderate and tend not to defederate from many places so users can kinda choose themselves whether or not to block an instance. Dbzer0 is similar, it's the instance with the big piracy community which .world blocked, and the admin is also great.
Both of those are in the top 10 communities in terms of size though iirc, which ideally people would avoid the biggest instances and join smaller ones to try and prevent centralization like what happened with .world communities.
Lemmy.zip is also great from what I've heard, and while it's not small, it's top 20 instead of top 10 at least.
Wow that's spot on the kind of information I was looking for! You're incredible, I appreciate it!
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Depends on what your interests are but I’d avoid creating an account or a community on .world (too dominating, and lately are corpo bootlickers, also power tripping mods), .ml (power tripping admin), hexbear (highest troll ratio, active attacks on other instances). There’s good folk on all those but there are big issues w each imo.
I’ve got several accts on different instances. Each have their quirks. Like some don’t allow downvotes or different words, and others are federated or defederated with other instances I wanna see or avoid on occasion
slrpnk.net resonates with me as I work in trying to help the world become more sustainable
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Feel free to crosspost!
Fox News (12/6/24) quoted one of its own contributors, Joe Concha, saying, “I think this encapsulates the far left’s worldview: If you run a company that isn’t to their liking, you deserve to die.”
This is not about running a random company to someones liking. Its about the company that decides whether people die or not. It literally decides about the life and death of its customers and they wonder why people respond with death threats when the company tries to kill them.
Support for him is also all across the political spectrum. It's not just leftists.
its not just that, it includes forcing people to live with completely treatable unnecessary chronic pain or issues.
It's profiting off of the suffering of others. It's evil.
I demand that Bezos and Murdoch outlets shut the fuck up.
Note how both demands will be equally successful.
The common people demand more sympathy for Luigi
Out of all the people who have been shot in NYC in 2024, Brian Thompson is the one I feel the least sorry for. And that includes people I've never heard of.
I demand more sympathy for americans with medical issues. Enough to get action to get them healthcare. Once we have that I might have excess sympathy that could be applied to health insurance execs. so get cracking.
I have concepts of thoughts and prayers
I don't even have those.
didn't get prior approval
Sorry, my thoughts and prayers are out of network.
I want the population to exercise more civic engagement and vote to their interests, not their social identity. But the Zeitgeist is a force of nature that cannot be bargained with.
Hence an absolute monarchist is the President Elect and the death of a rich CEO is lauded.
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Best I can do is deny, defend, and depose.
They can demand all they want. Afaict bezos and murdoch should be more worried about themselves
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Internet users are declaring that the man police believe to be the shooter, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, is certifiably hot
That's just a fact. It has nothing to do with whether or not you're sympathetic to him.
How can Americans simultaneously hate health insurance CEOs while simultaneously shouting down event attempt to improve healthcare at the ballot?
Neither party was offering single payer. American voters are stupid as fuck but I don’t understand what point you’re trying to make here.
Well, as poor as the choices might seem, last time Trump was in power he spent every day not on the golf course trying to sabotage the ACA. It wasn't exactly a zero sum choice at the ballot box.
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Notice the subject of the headline: the people distributing the news and information to those voters are upset that people aren't feeling "how they should". Those same news outlets edit stories to make people feel negatively towards things that are in their own best interest. People are cutting through the propaganda and starting to unite over healthcare.
shouting down event attempt to improve healthcare at the ballot
Did somebody offer single pay?!
Also, ACA is how we got here dear. Single payer or more dead CEOs likely IMHO
There should not be such job as CEO of health insurance company.
Perhaps there should not be health insurance either. Many other countries fund health care as an obligation to their citizens.
How did non-medical middle-men get into such a crucial responsibility?
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No.
OK, I read the various finger wagger quotes. I’ll concede one point: the shareholders (capital) bear greater responsibility. Yes, he was “just doing his job.” But it’s dirty work, this job.
It’s true that the primary utility of this type of CEO to a shareholder is liability encapsulation, but if someone hires you to do their dirty work, and you take their money, it doesn’t matter that you’re just doing your job.
In short, any henchman should know what he’s signing up for. Those exorbitant salaries are hazard pay, make no mistake. If you take these dirty jobs, and prolong the suffering of millions, I think it’s reasonable to expect that you’ll need to watch your back. Forever.
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Glad I got rid of The Washington Post subscription. We should have significantly less sympathy for either Bezos and Murdoch.
If it was Murdoch or Bezos instead of this guy the parties would still be ongoing
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Normally when you 'demand' something, you would have some sort of necessity or something of value that you can withhold until the 'demand' is met...
As they've shown us already, strongly worded articles and protest don't do shit.
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I pray for them to receive a karmic, consequentialist outcome for all the things they've done.
No
Cancel your cable or satellite subscriptions. Don't let Fox raise their carrier fees. https://www.nofoxfee.com/ https://www.commoncause.org/work/no-fox-fee/
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